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Wanuri Kahiu
Wanuri Kahiu (born 21 June 1980) is a Kenyan film director, producer, and author. She is considered to be “one of Africa's most aspiring directors, being part of a new, vibrant crop of talents representing contemporary African culture”. She has received multipe awards and nominations including for Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director, Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Screenplay, Best Screenplay and Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Film, Best Picture at the 5th Africa Movie Academy Awards, Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2009 for her dramatic feature film ''From a Whisper''. She is also the co-founder of AFROBUBBLEGUM, a media collective dedicated to supporting African art for art's sake, art for its own sake. As of 2023, Kahiu was reported to be living in Kenya. In 2025 Kahiu served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Dramatic competition category, alongside Ava Cahen and Daniel Kaluuya. Early life and education Kahiu was bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Sundance Film Festival
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival took place in person from January 23 to February 2, 2025, in Park City, Utah, Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, and online from January 30 to February 2. The first selection lineup was announced on December 11, 2024. It is one of the last editions to take place in Utah, as the festival announced it will be held in Boulder, Colorado, beginning with the 2027 edition. Films U.S. Dramatic Competition World Cinema Dramatic Competition U.S. Documentary Competition World Documentary Competition Premieres Next Midnight Spotlight From the Collection Episodic Episodic Pilot Family Matinee U.S. Fiction Short Films International Fiction Short Films Animated Short Films Nonfiction Short Films Awards Grand Jury Prizes * Grand Jury Prize Dramatic, U.S. Dramatic – ''Atropia'' by Hailey Gates * Grand Jury Prize Documentary, U.S. Documentary – ''Seeds'' by Brittany Shyne * World Cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Management Science
Management science (or managerial science) is a wide and interdisciplinary study of solving complex problems and making strategic decisions as it pertains to institutions, corporations, governments and other types of organizational entities. It is closely related to management, economics, business, engineering, management consulting, and other fields. It uses various scientific research-based principles, strategies, and analytical methods including mathematical modeling, statistics and numerical algorithms and aims to improve an organization's ability to enact rational and accurate management decisions by arriving at optimal or near optimal solutions to complex decision problems. Management science looks to help businesses achieve goals using a number of scientific methods. The field was initially an outgrowth of applied mathematics, where early challenges were problems relating to the optimization of systems which could be modeled linearly, i.e., determining the optima ( max ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Arac De Nyeko
Monica Arac de Nyeko (born 1979) is a Ugandan writer of short fiction, poetry, and essays, living in Nairobi, Kenya.Monica Arac de Nyeko african-writing.com. Retrieved 5 May 2014. In 2007, she became the first Ugandan to win the ,2007 winner: MONICA ARAC DE NYEKO caineprize.com. Retrieved 5 May 2014. .Michelle Pauli (10 July 2007) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Barlet
Olivier Barlet is a French journalist, translator, film critic and researcher on African cinema and its diasporas (black and Arab worlds, interculturalities). Biography Olivier Barlet was born in Paris on 4 October 1952. He graduated in 1976 from ESCP-EAP (alternative Studies in Paris, London and Düsseldorf). Initially a rural animator for the DECOR association, he taught translation and interpreting in Munich from 1985 to 1990, then became a literary agent and translated many books on Africa and African authors from German and English. A member of the Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma, he wrote about cinema in the monthly magazines Africa international, ''Afrique-Asie'' and Continental as well as in the Letter des musiques et des arts Africans, before funding with a few colleagues the magazine ''Africultures'' in November 1997, of which he was editor-in-chief from 1997 to 2004, and where he published nearly 1800 articles on African cinema. He also wrote the cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-Net
M-Net (an abbreviation of Electronic Media Network) is a South African pay television channel established by Naspers in 1986. The channel broadcasts both local and international programming, including general entertainment, children's series, sport and movies. While the TV signal is generally encrypted, M-Net showed some programmes 'free to air' in its "Open Time" slot between 5 p.m. and 7 pm, until the slot closed on 1 April 2007. In the early 1990s, M-Net added a second analogue channel called Community Services Network (CSN),''Mass Media, Towards the Millennium: The South African Handbook of Mass Communication'' Arrie De Beer, J.L. van Schaik, 1998, page 220 and began digital broadcasting via satellite tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wangari Maathai
Wangari is a name of Kikuyu origin that may refer to: * Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Kenyan environmental and political activist * Catherine Wangari Wainaina (born 1985), Kenyan beauty pageant contestant * Margaret Wangari Muriuki (born 1986), Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner * Martha Wangari Karua (born 1957), Kenyan politician and former Minister of Justice * Meriem Wangari (born 1979), Kenyan half marathon runner {{given name, type=both Kenyan names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Kholeif
Omar Kholeif is an Egyptian-born artist, curator, writer and editor. Kholeif's curatorial practice focuses on art that intersects with the internet, as well as works of art from emerging geographic territories that have yet to be seen in the mainstream. Kholeif is currently the Sharjah Art Foundation’s Director of Collections and Senior Curator. Previous roles have included Senior Visiting Curator at HOME Manchester; Co-Curator of the 14th Sharjah Biennial; Curator of the V-A-C Foundation Venice headquarters, Palazzo delle Zattere, during the 58th Venice Biennale; a curator for Abu Dhabi Art, and is a guest curator and advisor for numerous international festivals and biennials. Previously, Kholeif was the Manilow Senior Curator and Director of Global Initiatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Prior to that, they were Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, Senior Editor at Ibraaz Publishing and Senior Curator at Cornerhouse in Manchester. Previously, they were Curator a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Structural Adjustment
A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as biological organisms, minerals and chemicals. Abstract structures include data structures in computer science and musical form. Types of structure include a hierarchy (a cascade of one-to-many relationships), a network featuring many-to-many links, or a lattice featuring connections between components that are neighbors in space. Load-bearing Buildings, aircraft, skeletons, anthills, beaver dams, bridges and salt domes are all examples of load-bearing structures. The results of construction are divided into buildings and non-building structures, and make up the infrastructure of a human society. Built structures are broadly divided by their varying design approaches and standards, into categories including building structures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development. The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA), two of five international organizations owned by the World Bank Group. It was established along with the International Monetary Fund at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. After a slow start, its first loan was to France in 1947. In its early years, it primarily focused on rebuilding Europe. Over time, it focused on providing loans to developing world countries. In the 1970s, the World Bank re-conceptualized its mission of facilitating development as being oriented around poverty reduction. For the last 30 years, it has included NGOs and environmental groups in its loan portfolio. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africanfuturism
Africanfuturism is a cultural aesthetic and philosophy of science that centers on the fusion of Culture of Africa, African culture, history, mythology, point of view, with technology based in Africa and not limiting to the diaspora. It was coined by Nigerian American writer Nnedi Okorafor in 2019 in a blog post as a single word. Nnedi Okorafor defines Africanfuturism as a sub-category of science fiction that is "directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology and point-of-view..and...does not privilege or Eurocentrism, center the West," is centered with optimistic "visions in the future," and is written by (and centered on) "people of African descent" while rooted in the African continent. As such its center is African, often does extend upon the continent of Africa, and includes the Black diaspora, including fantasy that is set in the future, making a narrative "more science fiction than fantasy" and typically has mystical elements. It is different from Afrofuturism, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Noyce
Phillip Roger Noyce (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian film and television director. Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama ('' Newsfront'', '' Rabbit-Proof Fence'', '' The Quiet American''); thrillers ('' Dead Calm'', '' Sliver'', '' The Bone Collector''); and action films ('' Blind Fury'', '' The Saint'', ''Salt''). He has also directed the Jack Ryan adaptations '' Patriot Games'' (1992) and '' Clear and Present Danger'' (1994), as well as the 2014 adaptation of Lois Lowry's '' The Giver''. Noyce has worked at various times with such actors as Val Kilmer, Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Michael Caine, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Rutger Hauer and three films with Thora Birch over 25 years. He has also directed, written and executive-produced television programmes in both Australia and North America, including '' The Cowra Breakout'', ''Vietnam'', ''Revenge'', ''Roots'', and Netflix's '' What/If ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
